Health
South Carolina’s Republican governor is celebrating the ruling allowing states to block the country’s biggest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood, from receiving Medicaid money for health services.
The personal data, including immigration statuses, of Medicaid enrollees in Illinois could be used to help the federal government locate those who lack legal status.
Beyond Hunger is ensuring that older adults and home-bound residents in need on the West Side are getting fresh fruit and vegetables to their doors in an area long considered a food desert and where crime is a persistent concern.
The case this year is the earliest detection in nearly a decade. The virus carried by mosquitoes poses the greatest risk to people over 65 and the immunocompromised.
One patient’s family said temperatures spiked at West Suburban Medical Center during the weekend heat wave. Patients had already been evacuated from Weiss Memorial Hospital after the AC didn’t turn on.
New research led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign found that the depth of social networks that older adults have is linked to their health outcomes.
A total of 60 opioid overdoses were reported Friday and Saturday — including more than 37 on Saturday alone — triggering the city’s spike alert system, city health officials say. When overdose spikes occur, city teams fan out to affected areas with naloxone and assistance.
Beaches were filled Monday as daytime temps reached 95, just shy of a record for the date. Some relief is in sight late Monday into Tuesday, when showers are forecast to move into the area. But the heat will stick through the end of the week.
The Chicago area is under an extreme-heat warning until very late Monday night.
The heat index reached 106 Saturday and an extreme heat warning is in effect until Monday, according to the National Weather Service. Residents are urged to stay indoors in air conditioned spaces. The city has opened multiple cooling centers.
A crowd of about 250 gathered in Federal Plaza on Saturday afternoon to protest a Supreme Court decision upholding a Tennessee ban on gender-affirming care for minors.
Temperatures inside rose to 90 degrees as most of the 45 patients at Weiss were moved to the hospital’s sister facility, West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park.
Wednesday’s FDA approval marks the first step in an anticipated global rollout that experts say could protect millions. Drastic cuts to public health in the U.S. and abroad cloud the prospects.
Anosh Ahmed, Loretto’s onetime chief financial officer, is also facing federal charges for allegedly scheming with others to embezzle more than $15 million from the hospital in the Austin neighborood.
The move comes nearly two months after U.S. health officials said they would urge foodmakers to phase out petroleum-based artificial colors in the nation’s food supply.
When a baby ends up in intensive care, doctors are trained to help the infant and mother but also need to understand how to help the father cope, say two doctors who run the NICU Dads’ Group.
Testing on June 7 by utility Aqua, which serves Kankakee and Will counties, found elevated nitrate levels in water from the Kankakee River. Nitrates can be harmful to infants.
At least 16 counties across the state, including, McHenry and DuPage, have had cases of West Nile Virus in birds, mosquitoes and horses, though no human cases have been reported so far this year.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime skeptic of vaccinations, said he ousted the CDC committee to restore “public trust in vaccines.”
Hiring freeze at Northwestern University among measures taken amid rising costs, federal uncertainty
The wave of money-saving measures comes after the Trump administration’s decision to freeze $790 million in federal funding to the school in April.
DePaul told the organization, Planned Parenthood Generation Action DePaul University, that the university does not allow student groups to work with outside organizations “whose core missions are in direct conflict with the values and teachings of the Catholic Church.”
Major physicians groups criticized the move to remove members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, which makes decisions about who receives immunizations.
Water sampling results from the private utility company Aqua Illinois revealed nitrate levels from agricultural fertilizers exceed guidelines, creating a threat to babies that can result in illness or death.
The recall of 1.7 million brown organic and brown cage-free egg varieties — which were distributed to grocery stores between February and May — covers Arizona, California, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Nevada, Washington and Wyoming.
Another large fire exacerbated by climate change is threatening the health of Chicagoans. Government officials issued an air pollution “action day” on Thursday.
The Chicago School is accepting applications for the Illinois College of Osteopathic Medicine, which is set to begin classes in fall 2026.
Most people exposed to the virus do not develop symptoms, though illness typically occurs two to 14 days after the bite of an infected mosquito, officials said.